On Tuesday morning, Turkish television showed smoke billowing from a burning bus after a suspected PKK attack on a military convoy in eastern Bingol province.

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Now a special state security court has sentenced Mr Erbakan to a year in prison for a speech he made six years ago in the largely Kurdish province of Bingol.

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Already approaching his mid-70s, Mr Erbakan could end up behind bars now that an appeals court has upheld the prison sentence imposed on him last year for a speech mild to most non-Turkish ears he made in the largely Kurdish province of Bingol.

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